SAUSAGE! WHO WANTS SAUSAGE?
The Boatress and her security detail.
A huge thanks to the comment section over the past week or so. Its been the joy of my day between zoom calls and avoiding falling on the ice. THE BEST COMMENT EVER, in 19 years of doing this came yesterday from Gregory Wieckowski “Before you apply it, based upon what you have shown in the past, be sure to use SPELL CHECK!”
I am still laughing and starts the day with a smile, so, why not some sausage and flap jacks? Wooohoooo!
Pumice, gonna try it. Yes I know that 3000 grit sand paper will work, but love the idea of trying this.
One more image of my Grandfather in Alaska surveying, he is the one on the right. Someone in the family has those sticks.
Ready to race, and how I picture marinas back in the day. Paradise through the hindsight looking glass
Putt, putt, putt. -1907
SWEET RIDE.
Model 99 at the boat show display from the Blackhawk Chapter. OH HELL YA
DASH LUST
This of couse opens up another OCD issue. Ready?
Brocks prototype 99 out on her first run. NOTE the logo on the side. Uses the windsheild as the location in the center
And a production shot. Note the location of the CC. -YA, thats gonna be a debate now at Cassa D Waynes Big Ass Garage.
Classic slides. no thats not a phone. It’s a camera. Which of course today could also be a phone. Dang!
Post card on ebay.
And the flapjacks I promised. Clara Bow, and that 1920’s look.
So I dove into the look of the 20’s. Flapjacks, or smashed bosoms were all the rage. And yes I know this is like waving a red flag to a bull, “Troy” but hey, I did promise a deeper look.
Bust reducers were the thing. That sleek 1920’s flapper look. BTW, I don’t think there is a connection between flap jacks and flappers. This ad is from a website called Witness To Fashion. Entire story on it HERE
And of course there is no point in going on from here, cause all your gonna be thinking about is flapjacks, and I could show a beautiful boat shot here, and brain says, flapjacks. Bust reducer? Clara Bow? Where am I ?
Jack Beatly’s perfection! See… FLAPJACKS!
I will leave the flapjacks teed up for Troy. I like Suzy’s brass plaque on the wall and that marina shot just screams of good times!
and she means it
Ya, I’m not sure how that ever became a thing?
It even made a resurgence in the ’70’s with the whole Twiggy thing.
Gotta say Troy, didnt see that coming. What a great poster, I sure miss all those neon day glow flowers. Historian Troy! I was sure you would find some lady with syrup on her in a bed of pancakes. I looked.. HA.. Had to clear all the links and cokkies after that search. I am gonna be served Ihop banners now.
Its a miracle that you could motor boat at all in the 20’s wearing that..the sound would not be the same…
I never noticed the difference in the Chris Craft placements
I didnt either. Amazing how little details emerge the deeper one gets into things. This is the 100% #1 reason I love this passion. It twists and turns, for every rule, something broke it. Humanity at its absolute best. The human factor… WAIT. This is a story line. NEver mind, dont read this comment. Move on, nothing to see here.
I get such a chuckle out of the little details that are agonized over today, when in reality those decals were probably put on in different places depending on what hung over employee installed them on any given day of the week.
I disagree. I think Chris Craft was more tightly regulated than that, and if that was the case the Chris Craft name would’ve been placed willy nilly on the boats on the front and back and I don’t think that was the case. Those would’ve been hand painted back then so I think placement of the beginning to end would’ve been well thought out.
Katz marine was always a go to source so I present how they presented a restored model 99
This placement is incorrect as done by Wayne. Chris-Craft split the logo with the windshield frame. On a sad note. RIP Syd.
50/50 mix of pumice and rottenstone powder is what Gar Wood advertised.
Regarding the location of the CC logo on the side. Yes, the logo should be splitting the windsheild. BUT! The images from the ads and the factory have the production version more forward. Not sure why, since the split thing is a template sort of thing. SO? My thinking was, it was a new design and for some reason, design wise, this was a work around. But there it is. In the factory image. And thats not an optical allusion.
When these boats were sitting on the cradle in the factory getting their C-C logo painted on, part of the forward transverse cradle bunk stuck out past the hull sides. So, if the painter was left handed his reach could start painting the logo further aft than if he was right handed.
When this model was first introduced the logo was applied to the right side first since the floor supervisor’s desk was on that side of the boat. He wanted to see how the logo looked when it was first being applied. As things happened they just happened to have a left hand painter do that first logo on the right side.
And now you know the REST of the story.
(As Max Smart would say “Would you believe …”)